[ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS

[Zachary Gorden]

Is Samuel actually still actively working on NTLM? I thought that branch of
his was pretty old. Might be something to consider a dev contract for.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO <hermes.belusca at sfr.fr
> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Today I was finally able to finish the installation of Office 2010 in
> ReactOS, using as a temporary measure the Wine’s NTLM layer that calls into
> the ntlm_auth utility of Samba. This was done while Samuel is completing
> his
> NTLM implementation.
> As this wine layer is here running on ReactOS, few modifications were
> needed, and I also needed to find a Windows build of Samba. I’ve found one,
> by chance, at http://smithii.com/samba . Then, using ReactOS revision
> 73868
> (or later), and using this version of Samba, the Office installation
> finishes (reminder: the problem was due to the fact the installer needed
> NTLM to communicate with the “Office Software Platform Service”,
> OSPPSVC.EXE). We are now able to use Excel, Word, … on ReactOS, as shown in
> this picture:
> http://i.imgur.com/fLEwoVI.png
>
> There are now 2 main problems:
> - NTLM should be correctly implemented;
> - There are an awful lot of drawing problems with Office 2010 applications
> (similar to those of Office 2007 apps): for example, dragging the graph
> downwards shows his frame going upwards; there are many black regions that
> show up, etc...: It seems we have problems in coordinate frames. And other
> problems too. Also, we have some mouse capture problems: if you try to
> redimension the windows the normal way (bring mouse cursor on top of the
> border, left-click-maintained, move mouse, release left button), and then
> move the mouse inside the window, it continues to be redimensioned...
> As a result, I took ~=15 minutes to make this simple trivial picture above,
> almost all the time taken to fight against window dimensioning & the
> drawing
> problems.
>
> But anyways, enjoy !
>
> This will be part of my next blog report.
>
> Cheers,
> Hermès
>
>
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